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Tuesday, 17 May 2011
Thirty-Sixth Sitting of the Industry Committee
The sitting was chaired by Committee Chairman Milorad Buha and attended by Minister of Economy and Regional Development Nebojsa Ciric and associates and representatives of the Serbian Union of Employers Boban Atanackovic and Miodrag Nikolic.
Minister Ciric stated that the measures, adopted by the Government last week, are aimed at stimulating employment and at the same time decreasing grey zone employment. The measures give the employers a two-month time period to register their employees after which the Minister announced rigorous control and fines. He says that the Government intends to use the new measures to decrease the cost to private employers so as to stimulate employment. He stressed that the budget would not experience a deficit in that regard, but will have additional income based on newly employed.
The Minister announced that a company debt reprogramming measure will be adopted, with the aim of improving liquidity as it would grant a 12 to 24-month grace period as an additional deadline for the repayment of liabilities. Ciric added that the introduction of a register of disqualified businessmen is being considered but that there are certain administrative problems for the realisation of said register. The Minister stressed that all the measures are primarily aimed at decreasing unemployment and raising the living standard and announced that the Ministry of Economy and Regional Development will continue to encourage economic development of export-oriented companies and agriculture.
The Committee members exchanged opinions on the work of the Ministry of Economy and Regional Development and asked questions of Minister Ciric.
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11.00 - sitting of the Committee on the Economy, Regional Development, Trade, Tourism and Energy (National Assembly House, 13 Nikola Pasic Square, Small Hall)
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12.00 - the members of the PFG with Israel meet with the Israeli Ambassador to Serbia (National Assembly House, 13 Nikola Pasic Square, hall 3)
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12.00 - the members of the PFG with Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Island States meet with the Australian Ambassador to Serbia (National Assembly House, 13 Nikola Pasic Square, hall 2)
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12.00 - press conference of the Movement of Free Citizens (PSG) – Party of Democratic Action of Sandzak (SDA Sandzak) – Party for Democratic Action (PDD) and the Green-Left Front – Don’t Let Belgrade D(r)own parliamentary groups (National Assembly House, 13 Nikola Pasic Square)
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13.00 - press conference of the MP Radoslav Milojicic (National Assembly House, 13 Nikola Pasic Square)
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15.00 - sitting of the Committee on Labour, Social Issues, Social Inclusion and Poverty Reduction (National Assembly House, 13 Nikola Pasic Square, hall 3)
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15.00 - sitting of the Committee on Administrative, Budgetary, Mandate and Immunity Issues (National Assembly House, 13 Nikola Pasic Square, hall 2)
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18.15 - solemn academy “Under the Same Sky”, commemorating the National Day of Roma victims of WWII, accompanied by exhibition “Combing Through Time” (National Assembly House, 13 Nikola Pasic Square, Central Hall)